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The National Museum of Romanian History holds three flags from Assembly participants and the coat of arms of a fourth, which belonged to the Alba Iulia national guard. The first tricolor has dimensions of 235 × 100 centimeter, and each of its stripes ends on the fly in a corner with the tip turned outside. The wooden flagpole is painted black.
Flag of the Romanian Air Force: A light blue flag with coat of arms of Romanian Air Force in the centre with two stars in the left and in the right of coat of arms and surrounded by four air force elements Naval jack: A light blue flag with the national flag in the canton, a vertically set black-outlined anchor in the quarter ?—present ...
On Flag Day, public authorities and other state institutions are obliged by law to organize cultural/educational programs and events, with a patriotic or scientific character, devoted to Romanian history, as well as specific military ceremonies, organized within units of the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of the Internal Affairs.
The Romanian Armed Forces have four ranks of general officer, in ascending order of rank: Brigadier General, Major General, Lieutenant General, General. In cases of exceptional military service, the President of Romania may award a general the rank of Mareșal, or Marshal of Romania, the highest military rank in the Romanian Armed Forces.
In Communist Romania, the date of the national holiday was set to 23 August to mark the 1944 overthrow of the pro-fascist government of Marshal Ion Antonescu. Independence Day It commemorates the day of 9/21 May 1877, Mihail Kogălniceanu, through a memorable speech, proclaimed Romania's independence in the cheers of the Assembly.
General Antonescu (left) with Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Căpitan of the Iron Guard, at a skiing event in 1935. Lieutenant Colonel Ion Antonescu retained his visibility in the public eye during the interwar period. He participated in the political campaign to earn recognition at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 for Romania's gains in Transylvania.
The Romanian Land Forces (Romanian: Forțele Terestre Române) is the army of Romania, and the main component of the Romanian Armed Forces. Since 2007, full professionalization and a major equipment overhaul have transformed the nature of the Land Forces. [3] The Romanian Land Forces was founded on 24 November [O.S. 12 November] 1859.
The colors depend on the service branch (armă, literally "weapon") the bearer is a member of.They show on the shoulder slides which hold the rank insignia, on the band of combination caps, and on collar insignia.